I find pticly distressing atm the thousands drowning in the Med as they flee war. Insufficiently "lucky" in their birthplace 😭
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I agree. Furthermore, I think the real horror there is the turning of backs to the situation. Empathy is becoming a rare trait.
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Yes. And not only lack of empathy, but antipathy towards it — walls and fences being built to keep out the improverished Other
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I live mere miles from the Great American Electric Fence. I've watched it be built. It is egregious, abominable, wrong.
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Eurgh, at least I don't have to spend my life knowing an embodiment of the hatred is just down the road.
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Oh, I live in a hotbox of hatred down here. Fortunately, there's a good bit of a counter-culture alive and well in Tucson.
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I have a British emigrant friend who lives in Phoenix who's said similar things—that it's not all GOP cryptofascists :o)
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Ha! Actually, lots of Libertarian leaning folks out here. On paper, I like Libertarian ideals. As it is here, not so much.
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Yeah, small-government I can understand. But libertarianism as generally seen seems to be more about right-wing economics and >
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As with every "ism" what is the ideal and what is realized can be completely dissonant. The human paradox. What's left?
Jun 9, 2016 · 10:57 AM UTC
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